Stocking-suspender.



No. 768,928. PATENTED AUG. 30, 1904. A. BREESE.

STOCKING SUSPENDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 14, 1903.

N0 MODEL.

Patented August 30, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED BREESE, OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

STOCKlNG-SUSPENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 768,928, dated August 30, 1904. Application filed September 14, 1903. Serial No. 173,207. (in model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED BREESE, a subject of the King of Great Britain and Ireland, residing at T5 Aldermanbury, in the city and county of London,England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in and Connected with Stocking-Suspenders, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in and relating to or connected with stocking suspenders, and is best understood by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 shows a self-locking detachable clip or holder accordipg to my invention by which the stockingsuspender is supported from a stud on the. corsetwithout the intervention of a belt or waistband. Fig. 2 is a stud specially provided for attachment to the corset. Fig. 3 is a detached view of a portion of the clip separated from its stud and suspender-strap. Fig. I is a side view of the clip hung from the corset-stud as it appears when in use.

In carrying out my invention I support the stocking-suspenders direct from either a special stud (Z', shown separately at Fig. 2 as adapted to the corset, or from the ordinary corset-stud by means of a specially-constructed self -locking detachable clip or fastener. This clip or fastener consists, essentially, of two metal frames or plates C C, which may be riveted at 0, although not really necessary. The plates 0 O are slotted, as at (Z, to leave bars f, so that the elastic or tape D of the stockingsuspender can be threaded therethrough, the action being such that the normal pull of D effectually causes the pawl or hooked nose-piece it of the plate C to engage and hold the corset-stud cl, which is preferably separately attached by a back-plate g to the corset material E, Fig. 4, or the clip may be attached direct to the ordinary corset-stud. The hooked ends it h of the plates O O may face one another, and really one hooked end only, 71, is required; but the position shown,

Fig. 1, is quite suflicient to serve the purpose of effectually locking the clip to the stud until released by pressing back the nose h of the plate 0 by hand. I do not confine myself to the shape or precise arrangement of the plates forming the clip, as same may be varied without departing from the principle of my said improvements.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a stocking-supporter, two metallic plates pivoted together and having coinciding slots one above the other, a tape threaded through the slots and holding the plates normally in operative relation.

2. In a stocking-supporter, two metallic plates pivoted together and having notches in their edges near their upper ends and having coinciding slots below the pivot, and a tape threaded through the slots normally holding the plates parallel.

3. In asupporter of the character described, two metallic plates pivoted together and having a plurality of coinciding slots, atape doubled on itself and threaded through the slots in its doubled position, the said tape serving to retain the plates normally in operative position.

4. A stockingsupporter comprising two metallic plates pivoted together having notches in their edges near their upper ends and provided with coinciding slots below the pivot, a device carried by the wearer to be engaged by the metallic plates and a tape threaded through the slots normally holding the plates in position to engage the supporter carried by the wearer.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALFRED BREESE.

Witnesses:

RoB'r. HUNTER, BENJ. THos. KING. 

